A Proper Funeral

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There are strong and honourable reasons to have misgivings about the decision that on Wednesday, Baroness Thatcher will have a ceremonial funeral with military honours. But the decision is the correct one nonetheless.

There have been few Prime Ministers as deeply political as Margaret Thatcher. And few in modern times who have been as politically controversial. Some feel uncomfortable that a public funeral, paid for by the taxpayer, is being held for someone whom not all taxpayers admired. Conservatives worry that it is not in the British tradition, and on the left some have gone so far as to grumble